Brain Observation

I work with an individual who for a multitude of reasons cannot adequately perform her job. It started with her being constantly late for everything. Meetings, appointments, the work day, absolutely everything. In the beginning she would joke that it was a cultural issue, she would go as far as to say “I’m on Puerto Rican time” when she would walk in to a scheduled meeting three hours late. She would appear apologetic for holding everyone up but an apology can only go so far when the issue continues. The problem became habitual. When her work performance began to slide, she attempted to make corrections like creating spreadsheets, and scheduling more meetings with staff in an attempt to keep all up-to-date, and she began to do additional …show more content…
She has since returned to work only to be performing at 25% of capacity. She has failed to address the depression, the lack of time management, and the personal issues that plague her from fully functioning. The biological model of viewing human behavior believes that one will need a full view of a person’s thoughts, behaviors, and emotions which will include their biological make-up to understand a person’s actions. The theorist would to be able to see how the brain processes information. In the case of my co-worker, a theorist would need to know what biological influences were presented to this person for them to behave, think, and feel the way that they …show more content…
In this model, one would need to survey the individual to determine how and why they think the way they do. According to Dobson and Khatri, “Cognitive and cognitive-behavior theorists take the position that both the internal perceptions, attributions, beliefs, schemas, and other ways of being cognizant, as well as the individual’s adaption to the world through their behavior are components of adaptive functioning.” It would be necessary to look back at the childhood and the family influences of this person to pinpoint the specific issue or cause for the reasons they think the way they do. In this case, it could be being raised by an alcoholic father and an enabling mother, as this person has shared that they did not know their father drank until they reached adulthood even though it had occurred since birth. This upbringing could define the manner in which this individual thinks about specific situations. It could also cause this person to block specific memories which will alter the manner in which one’s cognition